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00:00:00.000Tony Caravono: At NC State there were a couple of things that you saw on your way to a game. You saw a ton of people walking and they looked really tired.

00:00:06.882They were not getting into the game on time because a ton of the people that were walking were freshmen and they weren't getting to the student section but they had great seats,

00:00:15.327so they'd be late to games. They also missed out on the community piece, right? Everyone is there tailgating.

00:00:22.619Tailgating is part of the culture here and they were missing out on that.

00:00:25.236So we wanted to provide some sort of transportation from campus, not just for freshmen, but from campus for whomever wanted to be involved,

00:00:33.082Phillips, he served with me and I think-Will Quick: He served with me too.Tony Caravano: -with you as well.Will Quick: Same role.Tony Caravano: He might have done three or four years in the same role.

00:00:42.638He pulled it together. This guy was brilliant in working with transportation, working with the administration

00:00:49.015and taking the vision that we had and getting it going on the ground, and it basically went from campus to the game and in a loop and got folks back and forth safely.

00:00:58.097Will Quick: We extended it to basketball during my time as student body president

00:01:04.028and sort of worked to try and solidify some of the funding. That's one of the things about student government and the way it works.

00:01:12.804The way it should work is that someone starts something-. So Tony has this great idea about Red Terror Transit,

00:01:18.974and then somebody else comes along and maybe it doesn't get as much attention and it falls off but it was a good idea.

00:01:26.063Well I was two years after Tony when I was actually student body president but I was still involved and the Red Terror Transit was still going on,

00:01:33.629so we build on the program, we add basketball and we try to work with the Wolfpack Club and transportation to make it a more set structure

00:01:42.981so that if someone two or three years down the road doesn't have as big a focus on that, that it continues.

00:01:49.372So a lot of that was, how do we make this something that's a tradition at NC State,

00:01:55.305and it's still running and it's still there and it's still got a lot of people riding it.